Sentence examples for pretended with from inspiring English sources

In the streets and back lots, Kostya pretended with his friends that they were the Red Army on the attack.

A Frenchman, he went to England where he pretended, with great success, to be a native of Formosa Taiwann), and published a book about that island, which he had never visited.

"What do they pretend with this new language they've invented for human rights?" Carlotto asks.

Charles J. Hynes, Brooklyn's current and perhaps future district attorney, sat down to talk politics last week with a journalist who agreed to play pretend with him.

Parents who joke and pretend with their children are giving them a head start in life, according to researchers at Stirling University, the BBC reports.

And there is at least a solid, electro-pop foundation underneath, which suffused their three best numbers, Kids, Electric Feel and Time to Pretend, with brittle disco fabulousness.

"We made a point of always saying to Sam not that we were building a magic cabinet, but that we would pretend with him," Lucie tells me.

Great entertainment tends to wear the mask of charm; it pretends, with its clear and present delights, to be simpler than it is.

We pretend (with America's triumphant Democrats as the worst offenders, alas) that Israel can somehow be set to one side while the al-Qaida terror debate rages.

Don't get me wrong, imaginative play is great - and I recall doing a lot of pretending with my own Barbie dolls.

But let us not pretend with po-faced indignation that Sunday's novelty touchline altercation wasn't first and foremost incredibly entertaining and really good fun to watch.